St Augustine's Catholic Church in Solihull.
Corner of Station Road and Herbert Road.
Grade II Listed Building
Roman Catholic Church of Saint Augustine of Canterbury
Description
SOLIHULL STATION ROAD
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5108
Roman Catholic Church of
Saint Augustine of Canterbury
SP 17 NW 2/23 5.12.49.
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Begun April, 1838. Architect: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin. Perpendicular style, red brick with stone dressings. Nave with small bell turret, west gallery. Contains C16 Flemish triptych. West porch added and chancel rebuilt to designs by Charles Hansom, 1878.
Listing NGR: SP1498279564
ST AUGUSTINE (R.C.), Herbert Road. The old nave, alongside Herbert Road is A.WN. Pugin's earliest surviving church, of 1839-9, now much altered and extended. Red brick, its lancets later replaced by Perp-style windows: w (ritual) of 1904, the p of the original surviving above it; s, late C19. Porch said be 1884 but dated 1897; bellcote 1897. Pugin's roof has the simplest arch-braced trusses. The C19 chancel (now Blessed Sacrament Chapel) is of 1878, probably by G. Heveningham, though JA. Hansom & Son and the local architect EB. Endell are other candidates. Perp, with a tall four-centred chancel h. Perp & window of 1866, re-set. In 1977-9 a new church of brownish-red brick by Brian Rush was built at right angles e the old one, with a wide jagged opening. Side-lit through angled windows. In 2010 Daniel Hurd improved matters by rendering it inside.-FURNISHINGS. This was the church of the Pippet family of artist-craftsmen. - REREDOS, 1870, by Joseph Pop-PULPIT by Dunstan Powell, 1917.-TRIPTYCH. Flemish, cs, chancel N wall. Given by Pugin in 1839. - Wall and roof DECORATION by Joseph Pippet, 1892, renewed by Hardmans, 3430-STATUES of 1892 etc. by John Roddis and H.H. Martyn, under canopies by Joseph and Elphege Pippet. - STAINED GLASS. Nearly all made by Hardmans. Old E window 1866, designer John Hardman Powell; chancel s, two of c. 1900; nave S, 1900 (two), designer Gabriel Pippet, 1902, Joseph Pippet. W 1904, by Elphege & Oswald Pippet, made by Harvey & Ashby. Other late C19 Hardman windows in the new lobby, mostly designed by Joseph Pippet. -TABERNACLE and carved PANEL above the altar the new church by Stephen Foster, 2010.
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